January 2, 2012: During the year 2011 the "Gute Nachrichten" website had 281,661 visitors, a new annual record. The number of visitors has increased fourfold since 2006. The tally for December 2011 was 30,763, a new monthly record.

January 7, 2012: The local income of the Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] decreased by 10.3 percent during the year 2011 in comparison to the previous year. Income in the last six months of the year did not match a strong second half of the year in 2010.

January 11, 2012: For the year 2011 the Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] distributed a total of 60,279 publications in the German language, a new annual record and a 4.3 percent increase over the previous year. The booklets requested most often were "Nach dem Tode – was dann?" ["What happens after death?], "Jesus Christus: Die wahre Geschichte" ["Jesus Christ: The true story"] and "Die Offenbarung verständlich erklärt" ["The book of Revelation unveiled"].

January 16, 2012: The January-February issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 7669 readers in 17 European countries. This is a new record high for "Gute Nachrichten" circulation, representing a 2.6 percent increase over the last issue and a 1.9 percent increase over the January-February 2011 issue. The circulation goal for 2012 is 8500 subscribers by the end of the year. This was the first issue to be printed with D + L Printpartners, the new printer located near the Dutch-German border in Bocholt. The cost savings for this issue was 1200 €.

January 24, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] relocates its office in Niederkassel, Germany (near Bonn) to a ground floor location. The office was previously on the first floor of the same building. The ground floor office means less work transporting booklets for mailing.

February 3, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] announces the dates for the next round of its "Kingdom of God" seminars. On March 17 the first seminar in the two-part series will be held in Stuttgart and Munich. On March 24 the second seminar in the series where will offered in Mörfelden, five months after the first seminar. On April 21 the first seminar to be held in Switzerland will take place in Winterthur, and one week later the second seminar will be held in Dormagen, Germany.

February 13, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] provides Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] provides a final typesetting quality check to assist the United Church of God-Holland in publishing the new booklet "Is Er Leben Na De Dood?" ["Is there life after death?"]. The Vereinte Kirche Gottes has provided typesetting for 7 of the 8 booklets published by the United Church of God-Holland.

February 20, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] announces a fellowship weekend for Pentecost for the Dormagen, Germany and the United Church of God-Holland congregations. Accommodations are available from Friday, May 25 to Monday, Monday 28 at the "Schullandheim Herongen" in Straelen, Germany on the Dutch-German border near Venlo.

February 27, 2012: United Christian Outreach Germany announces a special fundraiser to provide $1000 for Mnazakan Poghossjan to attend this year's Feast of Tabernacles in Schluchsee, Germany.

March 3, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] announces a switch to streaming live church services from the Darmstadt congregation, rather than using Skype. A test run last fall showed streaming to be more stable than Skype, also providing better quality audio. Services in Dormagen will be streamed live later this year.

March 12, 2012: The March-April issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 7847 readers in 17 European countries. This is a new record high for "Gute Nachrichten" circulation, representing a 2.3 percent increase over the last issue and a 4.2 percent increase over the March 2011 issue. The circulation goal for 2012 is 8500 subscribers by the end of the year. The lead article, Germany: The Reluctant World Power?, was written by UCOG President Paul Kieffer.

March 18, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] begins another round of "Kingdom of God" Bible seminars in Germany. Yesterday's seminars were conducted in Munich and Stuttgart. Read more »

March 24, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] conducts a follow-up "Kingdom of God" seminar in Mörfelden, Germany (near Frankfurt). 12 visitors attended the seminar.

April 4, 2012: Switching to a new printer this year has saved the Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] approximately 3000 € in printing and mailing expense for the first two issues of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine this year.

April 14, 2012: Statistics for the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the German-language region have been finalized. 107 people met at six locations to keep the Passover. On the first day of Unleavened Bread, 141 people attended services in six locations: Dormagen (29), Hamburg (11), Mühldorf (14), Plauen (12), Schriesheim (30) and Winterthur in Switzerland (45). The offering was 11,497 €, which was 29% higher than last year's offering. On the last day of Unleavened Bread, 126 people attended services in five locations: Dormagen (32), Hamburg (11), Munich (13), Schriesheim (35) and Winterthur in Switzerland (35). The offering (7367 €) was 9% less than in 2011.

April 21, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] conducts its first "Kingdom of God" seminar in Switzerland. 9 visitors attended the seminar conducted by UCOG President Paul Kieffer in Winterthur.

April 28, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] conducts a follow-up "Kingdom of God" seminar in Dormagen, Germany (near Cologne). 8 visitors attended the seminar.

May 5, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] conducts a follow-up "Kingdom of God" seminar in Hamburg, Germany. 8 visitors attended the seminar.

May 13, 2012: The May-June issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 8015 readers in 17 European countries. This is a another new record high for "Gute Nachrichten" circulation, representing a 2.1 percent increase over the last issue and a 8.2 percent increase over the May 2011 issue. The circulation goal for 2012 is 8500 subscribers by the end of the year.

May 19, 2012: United Christian Outreach Germany's special fundraiser to provide $1000 as festival assistance for Mnazakan Poghossjan to attend this year's Feast of Tabernacles in Schluchsee, Germany has reached 50 percent of its goal.

May 27, 2012: 35 members from 4 congregations in 2 countries meet for a Pentecost fellowship weekend in Herongen, Germany, near the Dutch-German border. Read more ».

May 31, 2012: Statistics for the Feast of Pentecost have been finalized. 144 people met in five locations in the German-language region: 52 people met in Herongen on the Dutch-German border. for a combined service of the Dutch and Dormagen congregations. The other locations were Hamburg (11), Munich (17), Schriesheim (30) and Winterthur in Switzerland (34). The offering in the German-language region was 10,016 €, a 17.8 percent increase in comparison to last year's offering. The offering for the 3 spring Holy Days (Unleavened Bread, Pentecost) was 13.2 percent higher than last year.

June 9, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] conducts its first "Kingdom of God" seminar in Austria. 4 visitors attended the seminar in Salzburg conducted by Austrian elder Martin Fekete.

June 15, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] re-registers its German-language Yahoo search engine advertizing with the Microsoft adCenter. Keyword advertizing for the Yahoo and Bing search engines is being combined under Microsoft, making the change necessary.

June 22, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reprints the booklet "Lebendiger Glaube" ["You Can Have Living Faith"], for the first time since its original printing in 2001. For reprinting, the text of the booklet was adapted to the new German spelling rules.

June 30, 2012: For the first six months of the year, the donation income for the Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] was 4.2 percent less than the same period last year. May income was 28.1 percent higher than May 2011, and June's income saw a 36 percent decrease, largely the result of a large single donation made in June 2011.

July 6, 2012: The July-August issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 8162 readers in 17 European countries. This is a another new record high for "Gute Nachrichten" circulation, representing a 12.9 percent increase over the July 2011 issue. This issue was sent to 6679 subscribers in Germany, 578 subscribers in Switzerland and 551 subscribers in Austria.

July 13, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] begins producing its "Gute Nachrichten" and "Intern" publications in the popular ebook formats "epub" and "mobi". Current issues are available in both formats, and archived issues will be updated as time permits.

July 21, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] conducts a follow-up "Kingdom of God" seminar in Munich, Germany. 1 visitor attended the seminar conducted by elder Martin Fekete.

July 27, 2012: For the fifth consecutive year, children from Germany and the Netherlands traveled to the United Kingdom to participate in the summer camp hosted near Manchester by the United Church of God-British Isles.

August 6, 2012: The special fundraiser to provide $1000 as festival assistance for airfare, visa and lodging expenses for Mnazakan Poghossjan to attend this year's Feast of Tabernacles in Schluchsee, Germany is now 100 percent funded. Mr. Poghassjan speaks fluent German and is the only member of the United Church of God in Armenia. He is currently unemployed. Without additional financial assistance, he would not be able to attend the Feast.

August 13, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] now has 200 followers for its regular tweets using the Twitter social networking service. Editorial staff member Jesmina Allaoua provides regular updates.

August 20, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] has completed production of all archived issues of its "Gute Nachrichten" magazine in the popular ebook formats "epub" and "mobi". Archived issues of "Intern" are scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.

August 27, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] provides a final typesetting quality check to assist the United Church of God-Holland in publishing the new booklet "Schepping of Evolutiie: Maakt het uit wat u gelooft?" ["Creation or Evolution – Does It Really Matter What You Believe?"]. The Vereinte Kirche Gottes has provided typesetting for 8 of the 9 booklets published by the United Church of God-Holland.

September 1, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] conducts follow-up "Kingdom of God" seminars in Salzburg, Austria and Stuttgart, Germany. Five visitors attended the seminar in Salzburg conducted by elder Martin Fekete, and ten visitors were present for the Stuttgart seminar presented by Paul Kieffer.

September 8, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] conducts the final follow-up "Kingdom of God" seminar in Winterthur, Switzerland. Nine visitors attended the seminar presented by Paul Kieffer. A total of 133 visitors attended the seminars held in 7 locations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

September 12, 2012: The September-October issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 8182 readers in 17 European countries. This is a another new record high for "Gute Nachrichten" circulation, representing a 11.7 percent increase over the September 2011 issue.

September 17, 2012: 119 people met at five locations in the German-language region for church services today on the Feast of Trumpets. In Dormagen the attendance was 33 (this year there was no combined service with UCG-Holland). 33 people met in Schriesheim (near Heidelberg), and 28 were in attendance in Winterthur, Switzerland. In Munich the attendance was 9. 16 people attended the afternoon service in Hamburg.

October 1, 2012: 193 people from 10 countries meet in Schluchsee in the southern Black Forest to observe the biblical Feast of Tabernacles. Read more »

October 9, 2012: The offering statistics for the Feast of Tabernacles and Last Great Day in the German-language region have been finalized. The offering on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles was 11,049 €, 1.9 percent less than last year. The offering (10,308 €) on the Last Great Day was 4.6 higher in comparison to 2011. The total offering on the seven annual Holy Days in 2012 was 5.3 percent more than last year.

October 17, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes ["UCG-Germany"] reprints the booklet "Das Buch der Offenbarung verständlich erklärt" ["The book of Revelation Unveiled"] for the first time. A reflection of the booklet's popularity, the original print run in 2010 was distributed in only two years, the quickest that an initial printing has been exhausted.

October 27, 2012: At today's final meeting of the year, the UCG-Germany National Council approved the 2013 budget of 220,000 €. Income is projected to be 190,000 €, with the deficit being paid from cash reserves. The budget includes projected expenses producing and distributing the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine to 8,000 subscribers, print one new booklet and reprint two booklets.

November 7, 2012: UCG-Germany establishes a member task force to propose topics for the next round of Bible seminars, scheduled to begin in the fall of 2013. The task force will also propose topics for an "open door" Sabbath service format. Austrian elder Martin Fekete serves as the task force chairman.

November 14, 2012: The November-Dezember issue of the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is mailed to 8192 readers in 17 European countries. This is a another new record high for "Gute Nachrichten" circulation, representing a 9.6 percent increase over the November 2011 issue.

November 23, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] has completed production of all archived issues of its "Intern" publication in the popular ebook formats "epub" and "mobi". With all issues of "Intern" and "Gute Nachrichten" now available as ebooks, booklets will be the next publication to be produced in this format.

December 4, 2012: The Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] launches a 24 hour internet radio station for its members. The station broadcasts a weekly sermon that is aired three times daily, church hymns and live audio from church services in Dormagen and Mörfelden.

December 13, 2012: The Calwer publishing house in Stuttgart requests permission to reprint an article in "Intern". The article will part of a series of articles in a handbook for public school religion teachers at the high school level.

December 20, 2012: At the end of the year the "Gute Nachrichten" magazine is being sent to 8242 subscribers in 27 countries, an increase of 8.8 percent over last year. There are 6995 subscribers in Germany, 537 in Austria and 555 in Switzerland.

December 31, 2012: Donation income for the Vereinte Kirche Gottes [UCG-Germany] in 2012 increased by 11.6 percent over 2011. Coworkers and donors (defined as individuals who provide financial support but do not attend UCG-Germany worship services) contributed 16.3 percent of UCG-Germany's regular income during 2012.